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Our curriculum and topics

At St Swithun’s we use the International Primary Curriculum to offer our children the opportunity to study a creative curriculum. The units are blocked into a series of weeks and children are immersed into their new topic with a ‘WOW’ day which will excite them and also provide opportunities for the teachers to find out what the children know and what they would like to find out.

During their time at St Swithun’s your child will study the following topics.

Year group

Topics studied

EYFS

All change

Lets pretend

I spy patterns

Awesome animals

Who what wear?

Seaside

Year 1

Time travelers

Say cheese

Toys and games

What’s it made of?

A day in the life

Environment

Year 2

The stories people tell

Super humans

Earth out home

People from the past

Hooray lets go on holiday

Year 3

Chocolate

Difference lives, different places

Digital gamers

Bright sparks

How humans work

Scavengers and settlers

Year 4

Shake it

Saving the world

Living together

Inventions that changed the world

Temples, tombs and treasures

Year 5

The Great, the Bold and the Brave

Fascinating Forces

Making New Materials

What a Wonderful World

Extreme Survivors

Year 6

At the beginning of each topic parents/carers are sent information about what their child will be learning. To find out what each year group is studying this half term please press follow this link to topic sheets for each year group

The school uses Sounds Write for teaching phonics. The children will be introduced to phonics and hearing sounds when they start Nursery.When children begin learning their phonemes, they will have a reading book which contains the phonemes they are learning. This will help them to be a successful reader from an early age. Children will also learn the high frequency words.

Reading SchemesThe school uses a range of reading schemes to support the teaching and learning of reading and comprehension:-

Oxford Reading Tree

Rigby Star

Sounds Write

Talisman Series

Dandelion readers

The children will be matched with a text appropriate to their reading age. Parents are actively encouraged to be involved in the process of reading with their children and books are regularly taken home to be enjoyed together.